RDFa as a UI extension mechanism

HTML and XHTML standards tend to be increasingly large undertakings
whose time frames from beginning to end approach multiple years. Some
standards processes are approaching a decade to complete and the future
only holds longer release cycles unless the standards bodies can find a
way to modularize the work.

XHTML Modularization was a step in the right direction. The HTML 5
route, while a noble undertaking, could be improved via the use of RDFa
semantics to provide functionality. This article outlines a potential
method for improving the standardization processes for XHTML and HTML
family languages by using vocabularies to define functionality instead
of the traditional ELEMENT/ATTRIBUTE route.

http://rdfa.info/wiki/rdfa-as-ui-extension-mechanism

Thoughts? Criticisms?

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny
President/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
blog: Bitmunk 3.0 Website Launches
http://blog.digitalbazaar.com/2008/07/03/bitmunk-3-website-launches

Received on Wednesday, 16 July 2008 05:29:16 UTC